Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

How is this something new at EM? HiPos and coloreds have always had it easy with hours of their choosing and extra help. Any hardships they ever endured were programmed for optics Its only the average Joe or Jane who need to scramble for some extra scraps.

Quiet quitting is not good for your mental health or overall well being. You must continue to push yourself to failure to bring value to the shareholders!

I have always been told...

"Your regular job activities mean nothing on PDS. Only stepout activities matter"

Exactly. When discussing this topic, I’ve found the people who have the list visceral reaction to quiet quitting come from 2 groups.

Business owners/corporate executives or anyone who benefits significantly off the sweat of others - especially by underpaying them.

Those who regretfully give (or gave) their entire beings to their job and can’t understand anyone who chooses something differently.

Quiet quitting definitely upsets the status quo and that is a good thing.

@uoy So I’m a “coaster” if I do what it says in the job description for the money they put in the offer letter?

Question for you and others like you: how much of me do you think you’re entitled to? I’m not asking you for more money for the same work, so you shouldn’t ask for more work for the same money. Simple logic. If you see something extra that needs to be done, take a break from “leading” and do it yourself. It’s not as if managers are overworked.

Follow-up: what do I get for doing extra? Last time I checked, O&G wasn’t great on rewarding extra effort with job security/advancement or incentive pay. Bonuses in other industries are up to 100% of annual salary. You fossil-fuels types seem to think you’re doing us all a favor by offering 8% AIP.

https://ez.substack.com/p/quiet-quitting-and-the-death-of-office

Highlight from this take is that if “quiet quitting” was a thing then we should be able to just ask our bosses for a few hundred bucks at random intervals for no reason. If they say no, we are being “quit fired”. Just as d-mb of an argument.

Some jobs require extra work, but to demonize workers for literally doing the job they agreed to is wild.

This has been covered elsewhere:

So-called “quiet quitting” is an intentionally negative-sounding term that’s been weaponized against employees who won’t perform the work of three people for the price of one. It’s also not as if companies are rewarding people for doing extra anyway. They pay for one scoop, they get one scoop. I really don’t give AF anymore. If you do, good for you. Let us all know how it works out for you.

I think that sums it up quite well.

Thankfully, we have no coasters on my team. I look closely for coaster signs. When found they are given the short stick until they are washed away, or wish they were. Among the high performers, coasters are easy to sniff out. Ha!

The secret's out. After realizing that hustle culture is a one-way ticket to burnout, mental health issues and premature signs of aging, the hottest trend in the workplace is "quiet quitting."

What is quiet quitting? Hint: It's not the name of John Krasinki's next silent horror movie.

The phrase comes from—where else—kids on TikTok. Here's how user Zaid Khan explains it: "I learned about this term called 'quiet quitting' where you're not outright quitting your job but you're quitting the idea of going above and beyond at work. You're still performing your duties but you're no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is, it's not and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor."

The concept is simple enough: Do your job but don't ki-l yourself. Going "above and beyond" is optional, not mandatory as many of us have been indoctrinated to believe.

And if your job expects superhuman commitment, then you better be compensated like one.
“I realized no matter how much work I put in I’m not going to see the payoff that I’m expecting,” said Khan, a 24-year-old software developer and musician. “Overworking only gets you so far in corporate America. And like a lot of us have experienced in the past few years, mental and physical health really takes a backseat to productivity in a lot of these structured corporate environments.”

Quiet quitting is resonating in a big way. As NPR reports, the hastag #quietquitting quickly garnered 8.2 million views since the TikTok was posted.

It's easy to conflate quiet quitting with glamorizing underperformance but this isn't about discouraging ambition. You should dream big. But spend those extra hours having fun, pursuing passions and hobbies and building your personal brand.

As expected, those in the C-suite are fighting this. “Quiet quitting is a really bad idea,” said Kevin O’Leary, an investor and star of ABC’s Shark Tank, according to CNBC. “People that go beyond to try to solve problems for the organization, their teams, their managers, their bosses, those are the ones that succeed in life."

That sounds fine and good for a guy with an estimated net worth of $400 million. He (like all business owners) benefit from the sweat equity of their employees. But how many of these employees ever see even a sliver of that wealth?

As someone who works in the music industry, I know first-hand the obscene discrepancy between those at the top and everybody else. I've seen people slog for years in unpaid internships, entry-level positions and middle management. Hamsters on the wheel to nowhere. Budgets get cut while execs spend millions on vanity projects and ego st-----g. Employees live in constant fear of the next round of layoffs. Many can't even do basic adulting like purchase a home or have real retirement savings.

I don't even need to bring out the statistics on how this breaks down in terms of gender and race. You already know.

Call it quiet quitting or smartening up.

Don't confuse YOUR self worth with a company's net worth.